From this Friday I shall be out of the country for eight days. I'm not taking my laptop and I shall be shutting down the servers at home. Mail for rubberturnip.org.uk, usr-local-bin.org, jamesthevicar.com and amandaloveshamsters.com will be queued by my ISP and the main website will obviously remain available but the photo gallery will be offline as will the webcam.

When I get back, I'm anticipating having a lot of mail to deal with, so please don't be surprised if I take a while to respond to anything I get sent.